Savings-bank.



No. 849,469. PTENTED APR. 9, 1907.

E. B. FOREST.

, SAVINGS BANK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 6, 1906.

ELZJEAR E. FOREST, OF'ST ONEIHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

SAVINGS-BANK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 190'?.

Application filed August 6, 1906. Serial No. 329.339.

To 11,71 1li/'mnt4 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELZEAR E. FOREST, a citizen of the United States, residingin Stonehani, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Savings-Banks, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like arts.

This invention has for its o ject the production of a novel Savings-bank, the same havinflr `a side door' which is normally held locke the lock of the door being operable to unlock the door only after the' coin-a art` ment of the `bank has been substantially iilled When a ressing device forming part of the bank and suspended therein over the money may be forced downwardly inside the bank,

the pressing device meeting the money and 2o and the bottom ofthe through'it depressing a spring-sustained false bottom that 1n turn depresses a bolt-carrying device interposed between saidfalse bottom said bolt, leaving the door free to be opened.

` a Section' thereof .The bank aS I have chosen herein to illustrate my invention also has a bill-apartment that may be opened for the removal of bills after the door to the cash-apartment has been unlocked.

Figure 1 in front elevation shows a savings-bankA embodying my invention; Fig. 2,

a vertical section taken through the cash and bill apartments, and Fig. 4 shows the mouth of the bill-apartment in section.

The bank is com osed of a top plate A, a bottom plate B, andp a body C, the body being preferably of one piece bent to form both "Side and end walls, the edges of the part 4o forming the body being suitably united either by overlappinfr and riveting said edges or by brazing said et ges together.

The top and bottom plates are flanged at their edges to overlap the ends of the body,

and stay-rods 0, a, extended through the body, are inserted through holes in the top and bottom plates, said Stay-rods being upset or vheaded at their ends, as at a', that said bot:-

tom and top plates and body may be held together inseparably unless the heads of the Y rods are removed.

The body is divided bya vertical partition b, composed of a metal plate flanged at its edges and united to the body by rivets c c, thus forming in the body a cash-apartment d and a bill-apartment e. Oneside of the bank bank; withdrawing on the dotted line a; Fig. 3f

is cut out to leave fitted a door j: The upper end ofthe door is Shown as united to the body at the top of said space by hinge g. located within the body and united to said body and door by rivets h. The door is shown so located and of Such width as to overlap partially both apartments d and e, so that when'the door is open access may be had to both apartments. The door is wider and longer than the s ace in the side of the body so that a part' ofpsaid door when closed overlaps the edges of said space and contacts with 't e outer side of thebody.

The inner side of thedoor isprovided4 with a loop m, shown as having an upward extension m', said loop forming part of a lock to be described, the coacting part of said ,lock bein'or a bolt n, connected looselywith the free en of a bolt-carrier n', shown as a lever mounted loosely on a stud n2 of a stand n3,sec1ird to and rising from the bottom.plate B. A

spring n* acts normally to raise said lever and.

a space to vwhich Will be and on these springs I sustain a fa se bottom at one edge,

pf'the latter having a notch bolt fn, that l through which is extended tge engages the loop m. y

Wlthin the apartment, at .the upper end thereof, is a presser r, (shown as a late loosely connected with the lower end ofJ a device 1"- for depressing the presser,) Said device being shown as' a screw having a finger-piacer. The body has a coin-opening 2, from which is led a chute 1*, open at its inner end into the coin-apartment, so that coin inserted in Said opening falls onto the false bottom, the springs being stiff enough to prevent the false bottom from descending due to tlnl weight of coin alone on said bottom. When, however, the bank is filled upto the under side of the presser,` the depressing device@- thescrew-may be turned, which will Causer the presser, acting on the top of the pile ol' cash, to push down the false bottom, crushing the springs, so that the false bottom in itsdescent effects a-movemont ot" the bolt-carrie-rn to withdraw the bolt from Said loop 1n, when the door may be readily opened, and the money may be taken out.

'lhe mouth 2 has pivoted at its inner side a series of double fingers 3 4, )ivotally mounted on like rods 5 and capable of being sep.-

' passage between their tree ends of a com, the g the opening t'pas't claim as new,

vby a top and bottom plate, rods con arated far enough one from the other l'or the extent to which said fingers may be separated being limitedvby stops 6. The body has a suitable opening t leading into the mouth t', through which bills may. bill-apartment. The mouth comprises a wall (shown in section, Fig. 4) in which is pivoted an overbalanced tongue ti, pivoted closing the mouth, as:

at t3 and normally shown in Fig. 4;. A bill may be pushed into the end of the tongue. One of the Walls of the body may have aseries of small openings t4, observe the interior of the bank,

As my bank is constructed the taken out only after a predetermined am of cash in bulk has been deposited on ne false bottom.

I do not claim a money-holder the bottom i of which may be forced out of the body of the i money-holder when said bodylhas received a certain number of coins, and it will bey under,- stood that in my invention the door` is normally locked, and a considerable pressure has to be applied to the false bottom before the looppholding the door locked can be withdrawn.

Having described my invention, what I l. In a bank,`a body embraced at its ends fining said top and bottom plates to said body, springs sustained by the bottom plate, av false bottom sustained by said spring, a door in .y

the body, a bolt for locking said door, and mean at the top of said box that may be move bottom and move said bolt to release said door, 'that the same may be opened.

2. In a bank, a door having a loop, a false bottom having a notch and locked inside the' body of said bank, a spring interposed between said false bottom andthe bottomA of the bank and `acting normally to retain the false bottom pressed away from the bottom of the bank, a lever interposed between the be pushed into the i through which to 3 bottom, to move bills can be nt and desire to secure by Letters to act on the coin to depress the false l l i l i l l l l a l l l l vide the bottom 'ot' the bank and said false bottom, a bolt attached to said lever, and a spring acting normally to move said lever to project s'aid bolt through the notch in said false bottom to enter said loopand retain said door looked.

3. in. a bank, a body closed at its ends by bottoni and top plates, a false bottom, springs interposed between said bottom plate and said false bottom, a door, a bolt and lever constituting means for locking said door, a presser located inside said bank below said top plate, 'and means to depress said depresser, it acting the lever and bolt to unlock said door.

4. A bank comprising a body and top and bottom plates, said body having a wall to dibank into bill and cash apartments, said body having means to permit the introduction of money ments, a door overlapping but a portion of the side of each apartment between the upper and the lower ends thereof, a false bottom, springs to sustain said false bottom, means 'actingv normally to retain said door locked, and a device to depress said false through coin on said false I into eac-li of said apart-v bottom through coin sustained thereon. tot.

unlock said door that it may be opened and thus expose both apartments.

5. A bank comprising a b ody, top and botand a dividing-Wall to divide the bank into bill and cash apartments, a chute leading from one side of the body through the bill-apartment into the cash-apartment, said bill-apartment having-means to permit the introduction of bills thereinto, a door, means acting normally to lock the door, the unlocking and opening of the door affording access to the bill and cash apartments.

tom plates,

Inv testimony whereof I have signed my name to tins specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

enzima nroREsr Witnesses EDWiN C. BURBANK, MARGARET A. DUNN. 

